CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.4.3

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2.4.3

• Minimum Blender version 4.5.
• Fix to rigid body collider scale.
• Fix to possible crash on import resetting shape-key ranges.
• Fix to Rigify reparenting.
• Fix to convert generic character.
• Fix to export converted character (humanoid) with null link_id.
• Extra checks for mesh objects with shape keys.
• Fix to DataLink avatar lookup.
• Update mesh modify retains mesh display settings.
• Update for iClone 8.74 Prop exports:
  • Motion updates and motion blending for Props currently disabled.
• Fix to RTX custom PBR shader type.
• Fix to specular value on Traditional materials.
• Added gamma correction parameter to skin and hair shaders.
• Hair shader update.
• Compositor update.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.4.2

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2.4.2

• Updated Morph export for Blender 5.1
• Fix to constraint driver setup with missing shape keys.
• Fix to Blender 5.1 import operator changes.
• Fix to Blender 4.5 import fbx.
• Fix to Blender 5+ grease pencil layers (Spring Rig Generation).
• Fix to Linux remote datalink compatibility.
• Fix to axis angle bone rotation calculations.
• Motion Sets & Blending update:
  • Motion sets updated for lights and cameras.
  • Motion blending for light & camera motion sets.
  • Motion blending always generates a new motion (non-destructive)
  • Motion loading & blending will refactor action's bone rotation mode if different from the rig bone.
    • (And not already keyframed for that rotation type)
  • Motion blending now also blends scale.
  • Datalink Pose and Sequence now write onto current motion.
  • Pose & Sequence bone blending optimization.
  • Pose & Sequence no longer keyframe face rig UI shapes.
  • Fix for blending all bone rotation types.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.4.1

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2.4.1

• Mesh modify pipeline.
  • Sends mesh only (no armature) for exact replace mesh updates.
  • Used mainly for direct facial expression editing with the facial profile editor.
• Animation Import Options and Blending:
  • Animations and be blended on import or existing motions can be blended together to create new motions.
  • Root Relative: Source animation root bone is transformed relative to the starting frame on destination animation, so that the root bone follows on from the exiting animation.
  • Motion Blending: Source animation blends in and out over the destination animation by the set number of frames and follows custom blend curves. For smooth transitions.
  • Bone masking: Only the masked bones are blended into the destination animation. Each bone can be weighted individually.
  • Shape Key masking: Only the masked shape keys are blended into the destination animation. Each shape key can be weighted individually.
  • Blend mask presets: Can be applied, removed and saved.
• Fixes to compositor texture pack baking.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.4.0

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2.4.0

• Displacement update for Skin and Pbr materials.
• Displacement added for Teeth and Hair.
• Clean empty mesh shape-keys and vertex groups on import (optional).
• Motion imports use actions slots for a single action for the entire character (optional).
  • Depending on action options, motions will refactor into Single action or multiple actions for each object.
  • Refactoring will also strip key-frames from bones and keys that have drivers.
  • Unused bones and shape-key tracks will be placed into unassigned slots or actions.
  • Motion imports set the preview range.
  • Add empty keyframes for non-animated shape keys (optional).
  • Function to clean up duplicate keyframes.
  • Function to add a new empty motion set.
  • Motion, Pose and Sequence action import options:
    • New - Add new motion for the character.
    • Replace - Replace existing motion.
    • Overwrite - Overwrite keyframes of existing animation with the imported motion.
  • Motion, Pose and Sequence frame import options:
    • Start - Import animations to frame 1.
    • Current - Import animations to the current frame in the scene.
    • Match - Import animations to the same frames as in CC / iClone (+1 for Blender)
• Rig drivers add missing expression blendshapes.
• FaceRig collection uses Rigify Face collection.
  • Can now be enabled / disabled with the Rigify UI controls.
• Standard eyelash disabled when HD Eyelash detected.
• Fix to Facerig following root position.
• Fix to shape key baking on export.
• Fix to bad vertex weights when skinning the rigify face rig on SubD 1/2 characters.
• Fix to material merge (InstaLod) character detection.
• Fix to baking node socket strength values from Color/Vector inputs.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.3.4

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2.3.4

• Add / apply physics resets physics to frame 1.
• Reset all dynamics added to cloth physics panel.
• Reset physics sets frame sync to "play all frames".
• Warning on bake physics button when not "play all frames".
• Fixes to:
  • Spring rig simulation reset error when baked.
  • Remove all physics error.
  • Rigidbody colliders positions when character rig is not at origin.
  • Physics weight paint error in Blender 5.0.
  • ARKit Proxy CSV load error in Blender 5.0.
  • Receive Pose/Sequence error in Blender 5.0.
  • Material bake in Blender 5.0.
  • Sculpt bake base shape copy.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.3.3

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2.3.3

• Blender 5.0 update.
  • Blender 5.0 API changed bone selection methods and compositor which broke just about everything ...
• Eye shader updates, Limbus region should be more accurate to CC4/5 now.
• Expression drivers for CC3 rig use expression json.
• Materials build for current render engine (Eevee / Cycles).
  • Buttons activate on Materials Parameters and DataLink panels to rebuild materials if changed.
• Rigify will fallback to next best face rig if selected in unavailable.
• Widgets for face rig included in Link/Append function.
• Fix to rigidbody collider orientation.
• Fix to weight painting in Blender 5.0.
• Fix to ARKit Proxy CSV Load in Blender 5.0.
• Import option added in preferences to reset all custom normals on import.
  • On some characters, custom split normals cause dark lighting artifacts that can be cured by removing custom normals.
• Camera switch markers generated when sending camera's across DataLink.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.3.2

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2.3.2

• Shaders updated for CC5:
  • Skin shaders updated to use cavity maps and dual specular blending.
  • Eye & Hair shaders updated.
  • Tearline Plus and Eye Occlusion Plus shaders added.
• Wrinkle map system update for MH facial profile.
  • Wrinkle map displacement update for CC5 head material.
  • Textures packed with compositor for faster wrinkle system setup.
• Facerig updated to use expression json bone data.
• MetaHuman profile facial expression rig added.
  • Expression control constraints and limits.
• Max texture pack size option added.
• Datalink use automatic lighting option added.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.3.1

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2.3.1

• 1:1 Viseme driver fix.
• Fix to Rigify bone locks being cleared by pose reset.
• Export Rigify motion only fix.
• CC Aligned metarig finger rotation fix.
• Fix to FBX exports not adding correct scale units.
  • This was causing Rigify export avatar bones to scale incorrectly in Unity.
• Removed Rigify disable IK stretch option as Rigify IK doesn't work correctly without it.
• Rigify export using CC Base naming aligns bones to original CC rig orientations.
  • In particular the jaw bones and eye bones should have a more compatible alignment. i.e. Unity ConvAI.
• Exit DataLink shutdown moved from atexit to Unregister.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.3.0

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2.3.0

• Rigify:
  • Meta-human like facial expression rig for Extended, Standard and Traditional facial profiles.
  • Expression rig supports retargeting, datalink motion transfer and Pose/Sequences to and from CC4/iClone8.
  • Options to adjust control colours, and face rig placement and attachment to character.
  • Supports ActorCore, ActorScan and ActorBuild characters.
  • The expression rig allows for more advanced targeting and transfer, for now:
  • ARKit Proxy:
    • The ARKit proxy can be used as a target for LiveLink face transfer (e.g. from Face-it add-on)
    • The proxy will drive the controls on the expression rig, which in turn drives the expression shape keys and head bones on the character.
    • Adjustment parameters can be used to alter expression strength, relax / exaggerate expressions, shift the directional bias towards Left/Right and Up/Down expressions.
    • Rotational adjustments for head bone.
    • Load CSV function to load face capture recordings in CSV format.
      • In particular this also works with the output from Face Landmark Link
• DataLink:
  • Motion Pose/Sequences no longer dependent on Quaternions, preserves bone rotation modes across the the rig.
  • Avatar/Prop skin bones identified by iClone ID, for accurate transfer and retargeting.
  • Fix to incorrect prop mesh positioning due to bugged exports from iClone.
  • Not all prop hierarchies can be exported exactly to Blender, sometimes they must have their transforms or scale reset in iClone.
  • Which now allows for Pose/Sequence transfer of Prop animations from Blender back to iClone.
  • Import & Transfer of lights and cameras with animations, including pose and sequences.
  • Light & Camera sequence can be send back to iClone via Sequence transfer.
    • (Must already exist in iClone for this to work)
  • Lights can use IES and light cookie textures (Cycles Only)
• Spring Rigs:
  • Hair spring bone generation fixes for Blender 4.4.
  • Fix to remove and rebuild Rigify spring bone control rigs and simulations.
• Materials:
  • Fix to incorrect embedded alpha channels from FBX importer.
  • Fix to embedded alpha channel custom UV mappings.
  • Emission rework, as multiplier on base color, with expanded strength.
  • Reflection surface supported as clearcoat.
  • Default (no texture) roughness and specular value fixes for Pbr and Tra shaders.
• General Fixes for Blender versions 3.4 - 4.4
• Wrinkle masks (local library images) packed into blend file.
• Export material fixes when image missing from texture image node.
• Export rigified error fixes.
• Convert to humanoid export json avatar type fix.
• Fix to Rigify export blendshapes on Rigify face rig and No face rig.

CC/iC Blender Tools Add-on 2.2.5

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2.2.5

• Fix to Blender 4.1 material refraction setting.
• Rigify setup defaults rig to zero IK stretch.
• Fix to drivers trying build on OBJ / Morph imports.
• Some Bake streamlining and Baked GLTF export button.
• Datalink remote file transfer, to and from remote CC/iClone.
• Wrinkle Region ALL, driver update fix.
• Scene Tools - Eevee setup button.
• Blender 4.4 action slot fixes.
• Fix to Blender 4.4 proportion edit crash when removing all shape keys.